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00:00Daniel Oyafusi and Field Yates putting out there that the Browns and Miles Garrett have modified
00:06language in his contract. And there's a lot of minutiae to this, but basically
00:13the payment of his option bonuses are modified in a way to benefit Miles and it's shifting stuff
00:20around. And additionally, $8 million of his base salary in 2029 and 2030 moved into roster bonuses
00:27early in each league year. So nerd stuff. Nerd stuff. It helps out Miles. It helps out the team.
00:33That's all you really need to know. So how does it help out the team since you're
00:37You just get more cap space available to spend. So if you get that, that extra money's there then
00:41to spend on other players or whatever you want. And it just kind of helps ease that pain of paying
00:46Miles as much as you do. Hey, this is what they do. This is what they do. Yeah. If you
00:51ask him to draft,
00:53depending on the year, you ask him to make a trade or find a quarterback, you ask him to
01:00manipulate the salary cap and oh boy, they'll do it. I think that's Andrew Barry's biggest strength.
01:05Is that why he's still here? It might be. It might be part of it. Yeah. Like that's a,
01:09there's a, there's a real belief that that is, uh, that is part of what Andrew Barry brings the most
01:14to the table is cap manipulation and his, his understanding of the cap, like what he's been
01:19able to do within that and his understanding of it is pretty next level. Any thoughts on
01:25Miles Garrett's new contract? I also need some, you need some willing partners in this too,
01:29though, right? Like you do need, you need to have an owner that is basically willing to just spend
01:33at all costs. That's the other side of that. Not every team has that. Like when we were talking
01:36to Albert yesterday and he was talking about like some of the differences between owners and how it's
01:41going to move more towards like a baseball model eventually one day where you live in this world of
01:45have and have nots, we might dislike Jimmy has them a lot for a lot of reasons, but the fact
01:50that
01:50he spends will never put the Browns into a small market category. I think there's only one team
01:55that that's really going to hurt and it's green Bay because quite frankly, they're, they're not
02:00taking on any private equity and they're a, they're basically a hometown spun kind of deal.
02:07Everybody else is just going to lean into private equity and we're going to get farther and farther
02:10away from individual NFL owners. Yeah, maybe, but like for the Bengals, for instance, like it
02:16doesn't help the idea that their ownership is cheap and they're not going to move into anything
02:19that you're talking about there. Uh, yeah, that, that how long, how much longer are the Brown family
02:24really going to own that team? I don't know. I mean, it's been, it's been, it's been a while as
02:28is
02:28the value is only going up. Like they'd have to find at some point the money becomes too large.
02:34You would think, but it's not like we ever hit a spot with these teams where people have started to
02:37lose
02:37money. Yeah. It's, it's funny. Like, uh, green Bay, assuming that their, their financial numbers
02:44are accurate and they're not fudging the numbers made, I think a hundred million pure profit in
02:512024. I looked that up for a different reason, but that number stuck in my head. And I think,
02:57and that's just talking about what they got from the NFL and that's not talking about any of the
03:00other myriad of things that they can make money on. And so, I don't know. I, I thought Albert's
03:08response was really, really interesting. Um, I think in the end, there's no way in hell
03:13anyone's going to get rid of those kind of the, the needing to put the money into private
03:18accounts, because I think it helps owners not pay players or sorry, it helps them delay
03:24some of the different signings they want to make. No, I agree with that. Uh, but like the,
03:28the heritage NFL owners and the ones that have been around forever, I can think about this
03:31with Chicago and the bears. I mean, the McCaskey family that's owned the team forever. Like those
03:35guys are, they're only wealthy because of the football team they own. And so when you have
03:40a bunch of teams like that, or at least a significant amount of teams like that, you are going to
03:43run
03:44into a problem. I think they're already starting to run into that problem. Now, as we are inside
03:48a month away from the NFL draft, I think something that we continue to have to point out is there
03:55is a trickiness to this draft. If you're Andrew Barry, and it starts with the fact that there's
04:00a couple blue chippers and it's debatable if any of them are going to be there. And if they
04:04are, it's a running back or a safety, but it goes deeper than that. The best tackles aren't
04:10necessarily tackles, or if they are, they're right tackles. The best wide receiver has massive injury
04:16problems. The next best receiver might be a number two receiver. It's funny. I think, I think this is
04:22a, it's like, this is a very complicated game that he's trying to play to ace this, uh, off season.
04:28Yet, I think you can make a case. It's his most important off season today.
04:31Right. Oh, definitely. And like, I feel like now he's got this perception of being some sort of
04:36like, I don't know, awesome at drafting, which is amazing how one draft is just offset all the
04:41other drafts, but this is how this is working. And it doesn't, this draft in particular doesn't set
04:45up for him to do basically anything that he pulled off last year that made him such a wild success
04:50based off of last season's results. I mean, I think last year you just need to get good football
04:54players. It didn't matter where they played, right? And there were a lot of them available,
04:59all things considered. Well, there were, but like he took a, uh, defensive tackle that people think
05:04is going to be an elite run stuffer, but maybe not an elite pass rusher. Let's even start with
05:07that though. Like that availability moving from two to five. I don't know that it exists this year.
05:11I don't know that you're going to find somebody that wants to, uh, trade as much as they did.
05:14Like part of what made that draft so great was the idea that you also added this pick that he's
05:18yet to spend on. No, that so fair, but I just, in terms of like, he drafted a non-elite
05:24pass
05:24rushing defensive tackle, a running back and a linebacker off ball linebacker where his first
05:28three picks last year, which is not really what you'd call a great value as far as, uh, impact
05:35spots. Well, but I think what that speaks to is he was even with Harold fan and jr. Being the,
05:40the, you know, the fourth pick, those are, those aren't premium positions. Right. And so what that
05:46tells you is he didn't feel the need. He was just looking to get good football players. He wasn't
05:50worried about things like, uh, you know, the, the overall roster composition. It was a true
05:56best player available. Yes. Yeah. That's, that doesn't feel like what this draft is setting up
06:01to be. I agree with that. And, but this, this draft is also so tricky too, and that it doesn't
06:04feel like, uh, we just have, uh, significant players across the board at every step that you
06:09could have. Even like the, the idea that you, again, you take Schwestinger and then Judkins
06:13in the spots that the Browns took, it's like, that was, it was set up pretty perfect. And so I
06:17don't
06:18know. I feel like people just have a, a different viewpoint on Andrew Barry than what we ever
06:23had with him prior to last draft. I feel like people now think that this is something that
06:27he's great at. And I wonder if there's going to be a letdown with this draft being harder
06:31to kind of ace it. That's why I think this year's draft is so important. If you ace this
06:36draft and by ace, this draft, we're talking about, you need to find a number one wide receiver
06:40and you do need to find a starting left tackle as well as a couple of depth pieces. If you
06:45do
06:46that, well, I'm sorry, this, this draft and finding what you need while also finding just
06:52more good football players, we will be able to answer the question. Hey, if you give Andrew
06:56Barry top picks, can he draft? That was a huge question two years ago. Yeah, definitely.
07:01Now, if you go the other way, yeah, I mean, I, I do think, I think Andrew Barry needs another
07:06year of elite drafting. I think it's fair to say if last year's four, first four picks
07:12playing the way they did, if that saved Andrew Barry's job and somehow leapfrogged him ahead
07:18of Kevin Stefanski for who was going to get whacked, then I would kind of think it's important
07:23to hit another great draft out of the park because if you don't, and this team is still
07:27a five win team, well, it ain't Todd Munkin that's going the way of the Dodo here.
07:31I think the cat manipulation is one part of this. And then I think the drafting is the other
07:35part of this. Like if you're putting together what you think Andrew Barry is at least capable
07:39of doing at a high level, that's, that's what you'd fall back on right now. And so
07:43like, yes, he has to, he has to nail these. And what's interesting about last year's draft
07:47is we usually give this so much time within hours of that draft being completed. People
07:51are like, look at, look at what Cleveland did. How does that, how does that work poorly in
07:56his favor? Like it's like, it was not possible. And then we watched the season play out the
07:59way that it did. And it did feel like everyone's like, yeah, this makes sense. This player
08:03here, here, here, and here. He took the right guys and it worked.
08:072-1-6-4-7-4-00-9-2. How does another good draft change Andrew Barry's perspective? Not
08:14only does he need it, but what it says is you can finally bank on him doing something
08:19at a high level. And that's really important. Like getting back to what you said, a cap manipulation
08:26guys that could be an organizational philosophy could be Ted, the cap analyst that is really
08:31truly responsible for that. And the owner that likes to spend. As a GM, I really grade
08:37you more on things like drafting, trades in free agency, and then roster composition.
08:43So I thought you did decently in free agency. I do think you're a better team now because
08:48I think your offensive line at least is going to give you a chance this year. And at least
08:52the chance is to stay healthy. So, okay, you get a half check for that and nothing trumps
08:59nothing trumps the draft because that's where your high-end talent is going to come in this
09:02offseason. Yeah. I mean, this is major for him. I really do. I don't know if the draft
09:07last year single-handedly kept his job because I just feel like he's just Haslam's right-hand
09:13guy at this point. But it's got to be one of the things that Haslam thinks about within
09:17Barry and says, okay, I think we got a guy here that can do this at a high level consistently.
09:21And I do think this needs to be pointed out because anytime we've talked about Andrew
09:25Barry this offseason and whether he's still closer to the edge of being pushed off the
09:31mountain than people realize, it's been, no, I think if they're going to fire him, they
09:36would have fired him last year. Or, no, it's not really like that, which is exactly what
09:41people said about Kevin Stefanski going into this year. Yeah, until he then got fired.
09:45And so I think there's, I think it's really easy to say a bad draft won't affect, I mean,
09:51there aren't two guys that walk in and are big parts of what you do next year. Like,
09:58if you don't have that again this year and you're thinking like, ah, well, maybe we'll
10:01get him in 2027 with Monroe Freeling. Yeah. I think it opens up the door for Andrew Barry
10:08and you don't want that door even cracked a little bit because it's Jimmy Haslam. And
10:12he seems to, he seems to come bursting through that door like Kool-Aid man.
10:16I also just think he needs a win with the fans this way too, where it's like the fans can,
10:19and for the longest time it was like, oh, Andrew's taking another, another third round
10:23wide receiver. That's not going to work out. If he can start to like change that narrative
10:27that, oh, well, Hey, we might not love him for the entirety of the year, but come draft
10:31night, we have one of the best guys in the business. Like that, that just goes a long
10:34way. And speaking of the fans, people don't forget people haven't forgotten the Deshaun
10:38thing. I mean, there are, there are a few people here that have forgotten as we have
10:42noted from the conversations the last couple of days, weeks, but most people have not
10:47forgotten who was really behind that deal or who was the kind of the, the, the chief
10:52in charge of pushing that internally.
10:53Well, now we can't find a football person to come on that won't say anything, but Deshaun
10:57Watson will be the starter.
11:00Yay. 216-474-0092. How does another good draft change Andrew Barry's perception? And what
11:06would a bad draft do? Adam in Lakewood, welcome to the show, buddy. What you got for us?
11:11Oh, I want to start out. Andrew Barry is not good. We have all the evidence we need.
11:17The, the picks last year, your top two guys, they're supposed to be good. I'll give them
11:23grace for Carson's Sueshinger. That feels like a little bit of a find and you wasted a third
11:31round pick on Dylan Gabriel flat out. Uh, Oh my God, dude. I love him, buddy. Oh my God.
11:40I love, I love, I love you. I thought you'd say that. Yeah. He's great. But this year, um, guys,
11:46uh, are we not just going to walk up there and take that big, great Ohio state receiver?
11:53Why would we do anything else? I would like him to start there. And then I'm really pleased with what
11:59he has done with, uh, getting some teammates for the line and the off season here. Um, and
12:06I want to chime in here. Shador, I believe Shador is the man we've got to get Shador can throw
12:12to
12:12the spaces. Shador has the talent to, to, uh, throw into a receiver's radius. Um, Judy doesn't have the
12:22strength or, or the sand to go for 50, 50 balls. I think bond maybe has that skill. Uh, who's
12:30going
12:30to grab Cedric Tillman and tell him, will you please be our great big receiver? Cause now we got
12:36a draft one, but Shador can do that. And I think it's critical that we get a guy who, who
12:42has that
12:43skill set and I'm going to shut up. You guys are great. And I feel bad. You guys are so
12:48talented.
12:48You make this boring Cleveland sports interesting. Cause they're, they're a bunch of losers tripping
12:54over themselves. And you guys are great for making it entertaining every day. Thank you.
12:59Wow. Thank you, Adam. I mean, it's our pleasure, Adam. That was a comprehensive take.
13:03We got a Shador take in there. We got a Tate take. We got a, we got a last year's
13:08take
13:08about the draft. We relitigated that. We're great. I heard a lot of, we're great. The only takeaway
13:13we have is everyone else is losers and we're great. Yeah. Well, by the way, the guard, the
13:19guardians aren't losers. I don't think the calves are losers. They haven't won the way we want them
13:23to. And the Browns can't acquit those charges. Oh, I thought he was talking about other hosts,
13:28but you know what? They want to win and, and go darn it. That's all that matters. And
13:34what? Go darn it. What is that? You never heard gold darn it? No, I've never heard gold
13:39darn it. You ever heard garsh instead of gosh? Yeah, I have heard that. Warsh instead of
13:43wash. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting very Southern on it. Yeah. Yeah. Go darn it. Go darn it.
13:48That's a new one. Why don't you come down to Medina County sometime? Lower Medina County.
13:52I went to the South. I think I'm good. LMC as we call it. Is that right? Yeah. Now getting
13:56back
13:56to his point, we agree. We are great. I know. I don't think we should try and pick apart
14:01last year's draft. If the first four picks are impact players, I think you got to give
14:06them full credit. And I also don't know that you do, you get no credit for the first two
14:09is if it's like an assumption that you're supposed to do great at this, like 50% of the first
14:13round
14:13picks flame out and don't work at all.
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